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' GAME APPARATUS. 4 I A No. 290328. A Patented Dec. 18, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO HICKS, OF WEST NEW BRIGHTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO E. WILLISCOREY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of- Letters Patent No. 290,328, datedDecember 18, 1883. Application filed October 4, 1883. (No model.)

The object of this invention is to provide a:

game apparatus that will afford amusement and that can be made veryinexpensive.

I make use of a plate or body of wood or other material, with circularopenings through the same and a handle at one end, and at the other enda flexible cord is fastened, to which is attached a ball of rubber orother material.

This apparatus is operated by aperson grasping the handle, and by aswinging movement causing the ball to ascend above the apparatus, and asthe ball descends the endeavor is to catch the ball in one of theopenings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section through the center of theapparatus, and Fig. 2 is a plan of such apparatus.

The body a is of wood or other suitable material, the top and bottomsurfaces of which are flat, or nearly so. bare the circular openingsthrough the same. 0 is a handle attached dis a flexible or elastic cordfastened near one end of the body a, and e is a ball attached to the endof such flexible cord.

I prefer to make the body a and the handle 12 of one piece of material;but the handle may. be made of a separate piece and attached to the bodyin any suitable manner. 7

On the surface "of the body a, near each opening, is marked a number. Ihave shown eleven such openings, two numbered 5, four numbered 10, fournumbered 20, and one numbered 30; but anynumber of openings may beemployed and numbered as desired.

In operating this apparatus the object is for openings, will bound off.in striking the apparatus, thus increasing'the amusement; but a woodenball may be employed; or it may be made of any other suitable material.The diameter of the ball 6 is slightly larger than the openings b, sothat the ball cannot pass entirely through such openings, but onlysuffi-' ciently far to be retained therein when properly caught by theperson using the apparatus.

I do not claim a cup or receptacle for a ball to which a cord isattached; neither do I claim a ring with a handle for catching suchball.

I claim as my invention 1. The hereinbefore-described game appa= ratus,consisting of the body a, the top and bottom surfaces of which are flat,ornearly so, with numerous circular openings, b, through the same, suchopenings being numbered, the handle 0 at one end, and a flexible cord,(Z, to which is attached the ball 6, for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, in a game apparatus, of a body of wood or similarmaterial, having flat or nearly flat top and bottom surfaces, andnumerous circular openings through the same, a handle, a flexible cord,and a ball, substantially as specified.

Signed by me this 2d day of October, A. D. 188.3. 7

ALONZO HioKs.

Witnesses:

Gno. T. PINOKNEY, WILLIAM G. Mom.

